Learning Designer

Sainsbury's; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pension scheme

Life cover

Bonus up to 10% of salary

Flexible working

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loans

Health cash plans

Salary advance

Retailer discounts

Job summary

Sainsbury's is seeking a Learning Designer to craft high-quality digital and blended learning experiences for colleagues across the business. You’ll translate complex information into clear, visually engaging content and collaborate with learning specialists and stakeholders to shape modern solutions.

You’ll apply instructional design methods, produce prototypes, and iteratively improve the learner experience while ensuring accessibility and consistency throughout all materials.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and developing digital and blended learning solutions.
• Transform complex or technical information into clear, engaging learning content.
• Strong visual design and content-creation skills using authoring tools such as Storyline, Evolve and Rise.
• Practical experience with instructional design approaches and learner-centered design.
• Collaborative with stakeholders and subject-matter experts to shape effective learning solutions.
• Designs that meet accessibility and inclusive design standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop engaging digital and blended learning experiences for colleagues.
• Take learning requirements from initial concept through to final content.
• Create prototypes and iterate based on feedback to improve learner experience.
• Champion accessibility and consistency across learning materials.

Skills

Instructional design

Visual design

Stakeholder collaboration

Accessible design

Tools

Storyline

Evolve

Rise

Job description

Location

Ansty, Coventry and Home - approximately 1-2 days per week in office

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as a Learning Designer offers an exciting opportunity for a creative learning professional who is passionate about designing high-quality digital and visually engaging learning experiences. You'll bring ideas to life, turning complex information into clear, accessible and effective content that supports colleagues across our business. Working collaboratively with learning specialists and stakeholders, you'll help shape modern learning solutions that are inclusive, practical and grounded in the needs of the learner.

What you'll do

As a Learning Designer at Sainsbury's, you'll design and develop engaging digital and blended learning experiences that help colleagues build knowledge, confidence and capability.

Working closely with learning architects, subject-matter experts and business stakeholders, you'll take learning requirements from initial concept through to completed content. You'll use instructional design methodologies and visual design principles to transform complex information, including detailed processes and written documents, into clear, purposeful and engaging learning materials.

You'll contribute ideas, create prototypes and use feedback to continually improve the learner experience. Depending on the learning need, your solutions could include digital learning, visual content, written resources, videos or supporting materials for blended programmes.

Throughout the design process, you'll champion accessibility, inclusive design and consistency, while managing your work effectively against agreed timelines and quality standards.

Who you are

You're a creative and detail-focused Learning Designer with a strong understanding of how people learn in digital and blended environments. You can take complex or technical information and turn it into content that is clear, visually engaging and easy to use.

You combine instructional design expertise with strong written and visual communication skills. You're comfortable working with stakeholders and subject-matter experts, asking the right questions and using feedback to develop effective learning solutions.

You'll also bring an inclusive and learner-centred approach, considering accessibility and usability throughout the design process rather than treating them as an afterthought.

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience designing and developing digital and blended learning solutions from initial concept through to completed content.
• Demonstrable ability to transform complex or technical information into clear, engaging and easy-to-understand learning content.
• Strong visual design and content-creation skills, with experience producing high-quality digital learning materials and supporting resources using authoring tools such as Storyline, Evolve and Rise.
• Practical experience using instructional and human-centred design approaches, including understanding learner needs, developing ideas, prototyping and improving content through feedback.
• Proven experience working collaboratively with stakeholders and subject-matter experts to understand requirements, challenge constructively and shape effective learning solutions.
• Demonstrable ability to design digital learning that meets accessibility and inclusive design standards.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new - whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).